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The Writing Academy - The Thriller

Introduction to
The Modern Thriller 

It’s Rob Parnell here with something that I’m sure will interest you.

When it comes to the mainstream tall. So stands genre bestseller lists, one particular much so, it’s probably seen as the most ‘respectable’. 

It is, of course, the thriller. 

Not only do thrillers make authors and their publishers very the make also rich, they most money in terms of film and TV rights, generating vast revenues worldwide

Thrillers are also in hot demand for translation, serial and resell rights. Authoring a series of thrillers can literally catapult your career and your earning potential to the stars!

Just look at the success of John Grisham, Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Richard North Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman, Michael Crichton, Sara Peretskyvery - the list goes on and on - all of whom make a respectable living crafting taut, psychological suspense fiction. 

Wouldn’t you like to emulate the success of these authors?

Sure you would.

Now you can, the Easy Way.

A year in development and hot off the press, I am very proud and excited to announce AWA's latest home study course:


Introduction to The Modern Thriller 

This brand new 6-part home study course takes you through the critical basics of writing modern thrillers for publication. 

From creating classic heroes and heroines, unforgettable villains, through research and plotting story, handling action, and building suspense into great denouements, to style, tone, credibility, etc, etc – in fact everything you might need to start a career in this exciting arena of commercial storytelling.

Don’t miss the opportunity to take advantage of this considerable new writing resource.

As you’d expect from the Writing Academy, the cost is minimal - less than one fifth of what you’d pay anywhere else. Just $278 (half price vial email) for the entire 6-part course. I’m sure you’ll agree that’s a serious bargain!

Here’s the course contents:

Welcome Pack: The Thriller: Form and Function. An analysis of the genre, its history and place in our culture, including a comprehensive overview of sub-genres.

Lesson One: Imagining Classic Characters, your key to success. We explore how to create and develop believable personalities that will stand the test of time. 

Lesson Two: Effective Research including easy, no cost ways to give your fiction total veracity – from info and advice on police procedure, to medical trauma and law.

Lesson Three: Backward Plotting – the secret to stretching the fictional envelope, and keeping those twists turning ever tighter.

Lesson Four: Sex, Guns and Vitriol. How a stirring mix of ingredients can mark you out as a writer of originality and panache.

Lesson Five: Outwitting the Foe: How set-up and preparation are essential to convincing resolutions, plus how to use false clues and secondary characters to intriguing effect.

Lesson Six: Serialisation. How to make your bestsellers run and run. Little known tactics for ensuring readers (and publishers!) clamor to buy your next book. 

All this plus lots of useful exercises and writing advice that will build your raw ideas into a credible and compelling story over the 6 modules.

By the end of the e-course, you will have a complete template for creating a stunning piece of novel length fiction and a solid grounding in the requirements of the genre.

Introduction to The Modern Thriller 

Purchase now for just $278. The entire course will be with you within the next 10 working days (Australia only).

Or, if you'd like to take the ecourse version immediately via email (from anywhere in the world) for just $139 - over the next 6 weeks, go here:

As always with AWA resources, you can get a full refund at any time (and that means any time - ever - no time limit!), no problem, plus you get to keep all the materials you receive.

Yours in success,

Rob@writersfriend.com.au
Dedicated to your personal success
The Writing Academy

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